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No Dark Matter Detected Yet

Desperate search for dark matter with increasingly sensitive detectors has yielded nothing so far; maybe it never existed except in the standard theory of cosmology Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

A new high accuracy calibration of the LUX
(Large Underground Xenon) dark matter detector’s sensitivity to ultra-low
energy events strongly confirms the result that it did not find low-mass dark
matter particles during last summer’s initial run [1].

Dark matter is thought to
account for about 80 percent of the mass of the universe, and without its
gravitational influence, galaxies and galaxy clusters would simply fly apart.

No one knows what dark matter is but the
leading idea is that it consists of subatomic particles called WIMPs, weakly
interacting massive particles, thought to be practically ubiquitous in the
universe, but because they interact so rarely with other forms of matter, they
are hard to detect. LUX is designed to detect those rare occasions when a WIMP
does interact with other forms of matter.

The LUX detector,
buried more than a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research
Facility in South Dakota, is shielded from cosmic rays and other radiation that
might interfere with signals from WIMPS. It consists of a third of a ton of
supercooled xenon in a tank fully bugged with light sensors, each capable of
detecting a single photon at a time. As WiMPs pass through the tank, they
should on rare occasions bump into the nucleus of a xenon atom and create a
tiny flash of light that could be picked up by the sensors.

The first dark matter search
results from the LUX detector were announced in October 2013. The detector was
exquisitely sensitive, but found no evidence of dark matter during its first 90
day run. This contradicted previous experiments that had detected potential
signatures of dark matter particles with very low mass. The latest work focused
on demonstrating the high sensitivity of LUX to potential signals.

“The new calibration
improved our calibration accuracy by about a factor of 10”, said Rick
Gaitskell, professor of physics at Brown University. “It demonstrates that our
first dark matter search result, which showed no sign of low-mass particles, is
absolutely robust.”

To calibrate the detector,
the researchers used neutrons as a stand-in for WIMPs. The recoil created when
a neutron hits the nucleus of a xenon atom is thought to be very similar to
that created by a WIMP. The low mass neutrons were fired directly into the
detector and the characteristics of the neutron recoil were measured by the
detector’s instruments. They then went back to their data from the dark matter
search to see if similar events had occurred.

Their initial results were
confirmed: there were no low-mass WIMP events. Along with the low-mass WIMPs,
the first 90 day run ruled out a swath of possibilities for what dark matter
could be made of. “There are literally thousands of models of particle physics
lying bloodied in the gutter,” Gaitskell said.

LUX will expand its search
later in 2014 in a second, year-long run at an even greater sensitivity.

The results were presented
19 February 2014 at the Lake Louse Winter Institute in Alberta, Canada, by
James Verbus who led the new calibration work.

Just over a week
later, scientists running the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment
announced they shifted the border of this search down to a dark matter particle
mass and rate of interaction that has never been probed, to as low as possible
[2].

The CDMS scientists have
cooled their detectors to very low temperatures to look for the very small
energies deposited by the collisions of dark matter particles with germanium.
The detectors are half a mile underground in a former iron ore mine in northern
Minnesota, shielded from cosmic rays. The LUX experiment ruled out a wide range
of masses and interaction rates above 6 GeV, CDMS carves out the territory
below that level.

Three other
experiments are searching for low-mass dark matter particles – DAMA (Dark
Matter in Italy), CoGeNT Dark Matter Experiment at Pacific Northwest Laboratory
in the US, and Europe’s CRESST project – and all claim that their data are compatible
with the existence of dark matter particles between 5 and 20 GeV. But these are
hard to pin down, as the lower the energy involved, the more likely they are to
be overwhelmed by background noise. Even more troublesome is the fact that
scientists don’t have a clue as to whether dark mater particles interact in the
same way in detectors built with different materials such as germanium, argon,
xenon, silicon, in more than a dozen experiments around the world.

All that can be said is that
the sensitivity of these experiments is increasing by an order of magnitude
every few years.

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paul van Loon Comment left 29th April 2014 09:09:18I'm sure that you already are aware of the following but in the off chance it hasn't come to your attention: www.thunderboltsproject.info
I found that many scientific magazines have a polarized view which is far from fair. They stick to the model wherein gravity is to explain everything but fail to see the many anomalies and flaws in this popularized model. Probably because of the exotic consequences (the end of: the Big Bang model, black holes, dark matter, dark energy, neutron stars, redshift as a measure for speed and distance, the expanding universe, redshift and quasars as most distant objects (get informed about Halton Arp's carreer and quest)), and being afraid about carreers and reputations. I strongly suggest scientist are left to explore without having to answer to coorporate economics and are left free to investigate even the most obscure, in order to bring back purity and above all: awareness for all mankind.
And, that those with different scientific approaches and angles are not obstructed in publishing their findings. It happens on a larger scale than I ever imagined and is the death for any science.
With respect:
Paul van Loon
The Netherlands

Nancy Swanson Comment left 22nd May 2014 20:08:02The only logical conclusion that I can see is that gravity doesn't exist. I have postulated that perhaps what we perceive as gravity is simply the pressure of the aether. Hendrik Lorentz and Henri Poincare developed the length contraction velocity transformations in an effort to preserve the aether.
They showed that, because of length contraction, it was impossible to measure the aether using an
apparatus such as Michelson & Morley used because the apparatus itself would be altered during the
experiment. Einstein did not say the aether does not exist, he merely said we don't need it to explain light propagation as long as we assume that the speed of light is constant for all observers. He then used Lorentz's transformations as descriptions for his theory of Special Relativity. Einstein simply dodged the question of the existence of the aether.
The rotating of a large mass would cause a warp in the aether (Einstein's General Theory of Relativity--the warping of space-time near a massive object). The warp from one massive object interacts with the warp caused by another. The resulting interaction is what we think of as gravity.
I have always wondered why scientists continue to think of gravity as a force. Einstein's warping of space accounts for the phenomenon, no forces needed. Einstein never really explained how mass accomplishes this feat. The only thing I have added is the idea that space is not nothing. Matter is simply confined energy. If anything is nothing, it is mass. The real something is the aether.